Grapho@lemmy.ml to Memes@lemmy.ml · edit-23 days agoTo be America's enemy is dangerous, but to be its ally is fatallemmy.mlexternal-linkmessage-square316fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squareSleafordMod@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 days agoI don’t think it’s just Putin which is why I mentioned the megalomania of other Russian elites. But Putin surely made the final decision to invade.
minus-squareCowbee [he/they]@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 days agoBelieving history to be driven by the egos of a few individuals and divorcing it entirely from materialist analysis is Great Man Theory, though. Ego may have played a small factor, but certainly not the driving force.
I don’t think it’s just Putin which is why I mentioned the megalomania of other Russian elites. But Putin surely made the final decision to invade.
Believing history to be driven by the egos of a few individuals and divorcing it entirely from materialist analysis is Great Man Theory, though. Ego may have played a small factor, but certainly not the driving force.